Example sentences of "[is] to act [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Enterprise Centre 's role is to act as a catalyst to encourage further development of live project work so that an increasing number of students get an opportunity to tackle this special combination of project work and contact with industry and to co-ordinate the evaluation of the ‘ Live Projects ’ scheme . |
| 2 | Its function is to act as a filing system … . ’ |
| 3 | A principal objective of the strategy is to act as a bidding document for the next tranche of European Structural Funds . |
| 4 | Factors such as age , reading ability , knowledge of indexes , knowledge of audiovisual equipment , and previous experience in finding and using resources and information may all have to be taken into account if the database is to act as a link between purpose and information . |
| 5 | The aim of the seminar is to act as a follow-up on the Consultation on the Practice of Communication Education in Theological Seminaries which was held in Seoul , Korea , in 1989 . |
| 6 | It is wise to remember that the basic requirement of a rod , apart from the obvious ones of enabling you to cast and retrieve , is to act as a shock-absorber for the line . |
| 7 | As temperature decreases with height in the troposphere ( reaching -40 to -80 °C at the tropopause ) , the effect of a warm stratosphere is to act as a ceiling or lid to vertical motion in the troposphere — that is , convective processes which produce clouds and precipitation are contained within the troposphere . |
| 8 | The object of this book is to act as a guide to commercial conveyancers when amending and settling agreements for lease and leases . |
| 9 | The second is to act as a filter to ensure that only those cases which for some reason need to proceed to a formal process of adjudication do so . |
| 10 | It is of paramount importance that you select a type that will take the weight of your curtains ; after all , the main purpose of tracks and poles is to act as a means of support . |
| 11 | the issue to be determined ( 8.4 ) ( 1.1 ) ; the expert 's qualifications ( 8.5 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that he is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator ( 8.6 ) ( 1.3 ) ; how the expert is to be appointed ( 8.7 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that the decision will be final and binding ( 8.8 ) ( 1.3 ) ; the due date for payment of the amount determined ( 8.9 ) ( 1.3 ) ; that the expert has the power to award interest ( 8.10 ) ( 1.3 ) ; provision for interest to run for late payment of the amount determined ( 8.11 ) ( 1.4 ) ( sometimes found elsewhere in the agreement ) ; and how the expert is to be paid ( 8.12 ) ( 1.3 ) . |
| 12 | The most commonly encountered wording is that the referee is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 13 | That wording is much more common than one which merely says that the referee is to act as an expert , omitting " and not as an arbitrator " . |
| 14 | One of the objectives of grant finance is to act as an incentive for investment from the private sector . |
| 15 | The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy . |
| 16 | It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 17 | THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors . |